Innovations in Treating Kids for Pain
July 25, 2013

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Dr. Rebstock describes to PainResource.com the common misconceptions about chronic pain in children: “Parents are shocked to find that there’s not one solution, shot, or procedure that can stop [their child's pain] and that there’s ‘nothing wrong’ with their child,” she says, referring to the common lack of understanding that pain itself can be a pathology, even without a discernible underlying problem. “It’s the nervous system malfunctioning.”